Technological utopianism

Technological utopianism is the belief that technological innovation will reliably improve human life and society, sometimes transforming social problems into solvable engineering challenges.

Francis Bacon: An English philosopher whose vision of organized scientific inquiry promised practical benefits and greater human mastery of nature. His program in New Atlantis helped establish the idea that systematic invention could improve society.
Technological pessimism: The view that technological change tends to diminish human well-being or produce harms that outweigh its benefits. It directly rejects the expectation that innovation reliably improves society.
Smart city: An urban development model that uses digital networks and data systems to manage city services and infrastructure. Smart-city proposals often promise that connected technology can make urban life more efficient and livable.
Technology and inequality: The study of how technological systems distribute opportunities, resources, and harms unevenly across social groups. Technological gains can concentrate wealth and power rather than improve life for everyone.
Responsible innovation: An approach to research and development that anticipates social consequences and incorporates public values into innovation. It asks how innovation can be guided toward benefits rather than presumed to produce them.
New Atlantis: Francis Bacon’s unfinished 1627 utopian narrative about a society organized around a research institution. Its House of Salomon embodies the hope that scientific knowledge can secure collective well-being.
Technological determinism: The theory that technology develops according to its own logic and drives social change. Utopianism is a hopeful judgment about outcomes; determinism is a claim about technology’s power over history.
Transhumanism: An intellectual movement advocating the use of science and technology to expand human capacities and overcome biological limits. It applies utopian confidence in innovation directly to human bodies and minds.
Automation: The use of technology to perform tasks with reduced direct human labor. Automation can raise productivity while disrupting jobs and livelihoods.
Precautionary principle: A policy principle that supports preventive action when an activity may cause serious harm despite scientific uncertainty. It favors caution where technological optimism would proceed on the expectation of eventual benefit.

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